A Close Shave

Another banner day for Tucker. Sunday, March 18, 2007 marks the first time Tucker officially shaves! After months of growing tiny little hairs on his upper lip he decided Sunday was the day. After church he lathered up, much like a two year old applying chocolate pudding to his face. He had applied the cream everywhere except said upper lip before receiving a gentle nudge from dad the perhaps he should apply some there. Notice the expert application that even includes the tip of his nose (you never know where those tiny hairs could be hiding!). After all that, he still managed to miss a small clump at the corner of his mouth. He's got years to get the hang of it. Now he joins the ranks of men everywhere. Of course the next 5 o'clock shadow probably won't appear for at least another month or two.

Plum Blossoms

This is from our flowering plum tree in front of the house. We are getting close to my favorite time of the year. I love when all the flowers are in bloom, the deep pinks, reds, blues and purples. It kind of compensates for the gray, rainy days that lead up to the blossoming time (a little compensation). The flowering cherry trees on the UW campus are particularly lovely in the Spring. It is wonderful to walk through them on a warm, sunny day in the Spring. (Yes, we do get those in Seattle--more than moste people know. It's one of our big secrets!

Cooper the Monkey

Literally. We saw this commercial where a kid was braced on a hallway ceiling, liked he'd climbed the wall and Cooper pipes up with "I can do that!" He then procedes to show us how he can climb the wall. Pretty funny. Can't recall ever seeing him practise it so don't know when he learned that little monkey trick.

A Banner Week for Tucker

Not only did Tucker get ordained as the President of his Teacher's quorum on Sunday, celebrate his birthday on Monday (he turned 15) he also made the Ballard High School soccer team on Thursday! He is very excited about being the President and takes his responsibility very seriously. His birthday was very low key with only Oma & Opa as guests. While it is only the all Freshman JVC soccer team he still made the team when about 8-10 other kids got cut. I say 8-10 because it was always a mystery (from his account) exactly how many kids were trying out for soccer. In fact much of it was conflicting when he was telling us what was going on. We were never sure if there really WAS a Frosh team or how many kids were trying out. It's kind of like his accounts of his school work. "Yes, I did hand that in. I mean I'm going to hand that in. I mean I'm going to finish that work, then hand it in." Or our personal favorite "Don't get mad, but.....insert excuse for bad grade" Truly he is a great kid. It's totally amazing to believe he is 15.